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California State CPHS Data Security Assessment

What We Do

Information Security and Policy (ISP) offers an assessment service to help the Berkeley research community comply with California State CPHS data security requirements. ISP Security Analyst will engage research staff and/or primary IT support staff to evaluate the IT system according to State CPHS data security requirements.

Compliance to these data security requirements requires Principal Investigators and an appropriate campus official, which was determined to be the campus Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), to certify that the applicable data security controls are implemented effectively as prescribed by the state CPHS.

The assessment will support the CISO's certification that applicable data security controls are indeed implemented effectively, which mean establishing roles and responsibilities in securing sensitive PID, as well as identifying technical measures to protect and monitor IT systems.

The assessment process will also produce a data security letter, signed by CISO, to help the research team complete a required component of the online State CPHS application process. Without a signed data security letter, requests for PID will not be approved by CPHS.

Who Benefits

Any researcher requesting PID from a California state agency will have to comply with this set of new data security requirements.

See California State CPHS website for details to help understand if your project will be required to comply with new set of data security requirements.

How to Get Started

Please note that all requests for assessment must be submitted at least 6 weeks prior to the State CPHS application deadline. If you have any questions on the process, or would like to schedule an assessment, please send an email to security@berkeley.edu.

In your email request for a new assessment, please provide the following:

Research Project Name

Project ID Number

Principal Investigator's Full Name

Primary Research Contact Full Name (if different from Principal Investigator)